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Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.